Talk:Shakespeare authorship question/sandbox draft2
Common arguments for alternative authors
While a multitude of arguments exist to support the various alternative authors, some of them see common to most of them.
=Biographical coincidences with the works=
Travels match play settings, events in plays can be connected to some event in proposed author's life
Oxford, Neville, Marlowe (sonnets)
=Verbal parallels=
parallels between texts in the canon, and writings by other authors—
Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe, Neville
=Ciphers and cryptograms=
hidden in the works or the funerary monument—all of them
=Family connections=
Oxford, Derby, Neville
=Theatre connections=
Bacon, Oxford, Marlowe, Neville, Derby